Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 393507,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/393507/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 195,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 93,
        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
        "slug": "kiraitu-murungi"
    },
    "content": "Therefore, she cannot adjust their payments because she has not got procurement consultants to do it. She cannot evaluate them and, therefore, cannot pay. Seven months have gone by and she had not procured consultants to do it. For how long are we going to sit around and listen to such excuses? The Commission should have internal capacity to do such things. This is not brain surgery. How did she fix salaries of Members of Parliament in such a short time, without appointing procurement people to go and carry out job assessments? Ms. Sarah Serem has acted in contempt of the Senate. We know there was a meeting in Naivasha and she had lunch with very senior Senators, the Emeritus Attorney- General. A very senior Senator, Sen. Wako, was one of those who had lunch with her. Since Senators were also being paid peanuts, he asked her whether she knew what she was doing when she was fixing the salaries and she admitted that she did not know what the role of the Senate was. She promised to do something about it. However, as I am talking now, the Senate has not been properly facilitated to carry out work in the counties. We do not cover geographical constituencies effectively because we are treated by the same Commission as Members of the Lower House. The same allowances given to us by the staff are the same ones given to members of the constituencies covering only one constituency. Sen. Kiraitu Murungi, Senator for Meru, covers nine constituencies. However, the Member of Parliament for the constituency I used to represent gets the same allowance for covering his constituency as someone covering the whole of Meru County. What logic is there? Time has come for us to stand up against this ad hoc, irrational, haphazard and unconstitutional discriminatory behavior from the Commission. If there is no action from the Sarah Serem Commission on the issue of MCAs, within the next 15 days, I would like to suggest that we, in the Senate, will bring a Motion of censure against her. We should bring a Motion of no confidence and lead a delegation to the President so that the conduct of this lady who is undermining the Constitution can be discussed. “Madam Speaker, Sir—“"
}